(These books are printed and subsidized; therefore their price is only 13/6 Australian, or $1.50 U.S.)
A Body of Divinity, Thomas Watson. Banner of Truth Trust, 58-59, Highgate West Hill, London, N.6. England. Reprinted 1958, 221 pages.
In his preface of this book C. H. Spurgeon says that it "is one of the most precious of the peerless works of the Puritans" and is a "happy union of sound doctrine, heart searching experience and practical wisdom." It is just studded with the Scriptures we love. As I read this book I marveled at the writer's amazing knowledge of God's Word. It truly was written by one who believed in, loved, and knew the Scriptures of truth.
The Ten Commandments, Thomas Watson. Banner of Truth Trust, 78B, Chiltern Street, London, W.l. England. Reprinted 1959, 188 pages.
This book not only goes through the commandments in detail, providing material for at least several sermons on each of the eternal ten principles of our God, but it also gives much under the following headings: Obedience to God's Revealed Will, Love, Preface to the Ten Commandments, Man's Inability to Keep the Moral Law, All Sins Not Equally Heinous, What Sin Deserves, faith, Repentance, The Word Read and Preached, How Effectual, Lord's Supper, and Prayer.
On the Sabbath commandment we find scores of gems, such as: "This is the queen of days, which God crowned with a blessing." "As there was one day in the week on which God rained manna twice as much as on any other day, so He rains down the manna of heavenly blessings twice as much on the Sabbath as any other day."
"This commandment was engraven on stone by God's own finger, and it will be our comfort to have it engraven in our hearts."
"The Sabbath was not abrogated with the ceremonial law, but is purely moral, and the observation of it is to be continued to the end of the world."
The Lord's Prayer, Thomas Watson. Banner of Truth Trust, 78B, Chiltern Street, London, W.l. England, Reprinted 1960, 241 pages.
This is the third and final volume of Thomas Watson's expositions of the Westminster Assembly's Catechism and is of the same high quality as the other two.
